Mental Health Resources
Other Mental Health Resources
ADDCoach4u Adult ADD Coach Pete Quily's ADD Resource Website
- website: www.addcoach4u.com
Brain Explorer on Anxiety Disorders
Brain Explorer on Bi-Polar Disorder
Brain Explorer on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Brain Explorer on Panic Disorder
Brain Explorer on Schizophrenia
CAMH: Mental Health and Addiction 101
- A useful series of tutorials covering common topics in mental health
- website: www.camh.net/education/Online_courses_webinars/mha101/index.html
CMHA Location Finder
- Find CMHA locations across Canada
- website: CMHA Location Finder
CMHA Resources
- More than 30 information pamphlets (PDF Format) on mental health issues
- website: CMHA Resources
Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine
- Society of mental health professionals
- Site has good definitions of mental health terms
- website: www.csam.org/
Centre for Suicide Prevention
- Has a good PowerPoint presentation entitled “Suicide in Canada”
- website: www.suicideinfo.ca/
Douglas Hospital - Mini-Psych School
- The Douglas in Montreal has a bunch of lectures on mental health posted on YouTube
- website: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lpB6_UICt2Y&feature=user
The Economic Burden of Mental Health in Canada - A Canadian Study
- This study estimates the economic burden of mental illness in 1998
- Old, but illustrative in how global the impact is
- website: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/22-1/d_e.html
Harvard Brain Map
- Exhaustive and technical site with MRI images
- website: www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
PBS: The Secret Life of the Brain
- PBS website from their series : The Secret Life of the Brain
- An excellent site with information on many different aspects of the brain and brain illness
- website: www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html
PBS: The Secret Life of the Brain - Episode 3 - Culture and Schizophrenia
- An interesting cross cultural comparison of perceptions, treatments and symptoms
- website: www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode3/cultures/index.html
PBS: The Secret Life of the Brain - Culture and Schizophrenia
- website: www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html
Public Health Agency of Canada - Mental Health Problems and Disorders
- Information substance abuse, physical/mental health disorders, suicide, mood disorders, schizophrenia and violence.
- website: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/mh-sm/problems-eng.php
Film festivals with mental health theme
- Frame of Mind in BC: www.cinematheque.bc.ca/framesofmind/
- Rendezvous With Madness in Toronto: www.rendezvouswithmadness.com/
Find Counseling.com: Interactive Glossary of Mental Health and Disability Terms
- Massive glossary of definitions and key terms
- website: www.findcounseling.com/glossary/
Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health and Addiction
- Lots of material on the impact of mental illness on business and productivity
- website: www.mentalhealthroundtable.ca/
A Guide to Understanding Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies guide
- Accessible language
- website: www.babcp.com/babcp/what_is_CBT.htm
Public Health Agency of Canada
- The Human Face of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Canada (203 pages)
- website: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/human-humain06/
Understanding Mental Illness
Virtual Reality Brain Project
- 3-D pictures of actual brain sections
- An interesting and fun neuro-anatomy resource
- website: http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/vr_brain/